First-Year Chicken Keeper Mistakes That Cost Me $500+ - Similar Threads

Register / Login

permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums

this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...

master stewards:

Carla Burke
John F Dean
Timothy Norton
Nancy Reading
r ranson
Jay Angler
Pearl Sutton

stewards:

paul wheaton
Tereza Okava
Andrés Bernal

master gardeners:

Christopher Weeks

gardeners:

Jeremy VanGelder
M Ljin
Matt McSpadden

Other threads similar to First-Year Chicken Keeper Mistakes That Cost Me $500+

chickens

chickens don't want to go to bed

12 replies 6

shelters and habitat

Woods Fresh-Air coop build

42 replies [ 1, 2 ] 15 18

chickens

New to chickens, seeking advice

14 replies 1

chickens

chickens: house, yard and free range: have it all

21 replies 2

chickens

Please help out a newbie - simple chicken set up

14 replies 1

chickens

Sneezing Chickens—When Do You Worry, and When Do You Wait It Out?

0 replies

chickens

Flock outgrew the current coop, need to build a new one. Ideas?

29 replies 11 14

chickens

Mobile Coop Using an Old Utility Trailer

16 replies 1 11 14

rotational grazing

City-paddock ideas

3 replies 1 1

chickens

Grandma's Chicken Project

23 replies 2 4 3

meaningless drivel

Apple Poll!! Where do you keep baby birds?

16 replies 5 22

chickens

Looking for help with the flock....

13 replies 2 12

chickens

I would appreciate feedback on the design of my coop/run remodel

3 replies 1

chickens

city / suburban chickens

41 replies [ 1, 2 ]

plants

Plants alongside chicken coop.

24 replies 2 4

chickens

coop building

12 replies 1 4

chickens

Critique my mobile coop

21 replies 9 8

chickens

beak issue

4 replies 3 1

chickens

alternatives to buried hardware cloth for digging predators

13 replies 3 1

chickens

Impossible coop design?

22 replies 1 5

chickens

Does keeping chickens actually save money?

83 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 1 63

chickens

How Many Chickens for Profit? A Homesteader's Realistic Breakdown

3 replies 1

chickens

Leader-Follower Grazing, Chicken Tractors and Pasture Dynamics

6 replies 3

quail and pigeons

Some Quail Questions

6 replies

forest garden

Rotating chickens in and out of vegetation for different effects?

7 replies 1

chickens

Waynes chicken tractor conversion

13 replies 12 1

polyculture

High tunnel in high winds input needed

22 replies 2 5 7

permaculture sites

I'm finally getting land...

87 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 18 20

chickens

Interested in ideas for siding a mobile chicken coop

11 replies 1

chickens

Heads Up: Spotting Newcastle Disease Before It Wipes Out Your Flock

0 replies

shelters and habitat

Want to help settle an argument about Chicken Coop Ventilation?

4 replies

chickens

Let's talk about "Barnyard Mix" chickens!

19 replies 1 5

chickens

Chicken Tractor in high-predator area

34 replies 3 7 13

chickens

Seriously Raising Chickens

8 replies 3 2

predators

Q: Why we no longer use chicken wire? A: Raccoon!

13 replies 1 1 2

chickens

raising broilers or meat birds in a food forest

44 replies [ 1, 2 ] 7 1

chickens

introducing a few 6 week old hens to a flock

7 replies

chickens

Multi-choice (buffet style) feeder designs, ideas, etc.

15 replies 5 1

ancestral skills

They killed snakes. then they were overwhelmed with rats!

27 replies 5

chickens

Predators from a tree branch?

11 replies 2 2

chickens

How to build a predator proof chicken coop on a budget?

4 replies

chickens

Introducing New Chicks to a Flock

14 replies

meaningless drivel

Worst mistakes – series of cautionary tales – various authors

25 replies 3

gear

Cool Tools, lesser known tools that can improve your life

105 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <12, 13, 14 ] 37 66 28 10

chickens

Backyard chicken vaccination

44 replies [ 1, 2 ] 6

chickens

Chicken coop made of rammed Earth?

4 replies

goats and sheep

before your goat/sheep/llama/livestock becomes deathly ill...

1 reply 2

chickens

Making Chickens Work for YOU.

12 replies 1

chickens

Feeding Chicks from day one to ready to lay

4 replies 4 2

roundwood and timber framing

How to build with bamboo?

6 replies 1